A Peking dispatch states that H.E. Viceroy Yuan Shu-kai, who is a member of the Committee on Army Reorganisation of which Prince Ching is the President, has ordered the establishment of a School of Military Strategy and Tactics in connection with the Military Academy to be started vext spring by the Army Reorganisation Department in Peking. The principal instructors of this School to be engaged from Japan and the Japanese Government will be asked to select the necessary officers for the Chinese Government.
Big guns for the Northern Army.
It is reported from Tientsin that no less than forty-eight twelve-centimetre (45-inch) guns with sufficient ammunition have lately arrived at Tangku from Europe and that thirty-six of them are to be for the forces stationed in the vicinity of Yungpingfu, near the Great Wall, while the remaining twelve guns are destined for the troops at Paoting. The Northern Army, under the supreme command of Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai, we hear therefore, now possesses no less than one hundred and eight of these guns.
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